NUvention: Medical Innovation is a unique interdisciplinary course designed to create opportunities for students to create new medical technologies and then build businesses around their innovations.
This two quarter class was conceived by students within the McCormick, Kellogg, Law and Feinberg schools along with the assistance of the student group, InNUvation, and the McCormick Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
NUvention Medical Innovation is an interdisciplinary experiencial learning program designed to expose students to the entire innovation and entrepreneurial life cycle. New medical technologies will evolve from basic clinical needs.NUvention is designed to simulate how innovations become businesses in the real world. Our primary goal is to walk through each of the steps associated with bringing a medical innovation to the patient. In a very compressed period of six months, student teams will be expected to work through a number or product, intellectual property, regulatory and business development steps as if they were part of an entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial team. NUvention represents the most aggressive attempt to allow students to create a start-up within the framework of a class.